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Calendar Grey September 18, 2013
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The Debian Security Announcement DSA-4600-1 addresses a critical vulnerability in the package-installer impacting various versions.
language-selector could be tricked into bypassing polkit authorizations.

Summary

language-selector could be tricked into bypassing polkit authorizations.

Software Description:

- language-selector: Language selector for Ubuntu

Details:

It was discovered that language-selector was using polkit in an unsafe

manner. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass intended

polkit authorizations.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate Ubuntu authorization bypass polkit language-selector

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 13.04:
  language-selector-common        0.110.1

Ubuntu 12.10:
  language-selector-common        0.90.1

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  language-selector-common        0.79.4

After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make
all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1958-1

CVE-2013-1066

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September 18, 2013

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate Ubuntu authorization bypass polkit language-selector

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/language-selector/0.110.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/language-selector/0.90.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/language-selector/0.79.4

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